A Japanese and Chinese Major

Japanese people know lots of kanji, but despite that there are still a few that can trip them up.  Perhaps the most difficult kanji to learn is also one that has a lot of strokes, the kanji which means incidentally “gloom” or “depression”.  It has a whopping 29 strokes.  When you see it on the monitor you can’t really identify it, it just looks like a small square of black mess.

Here is the kanji: 鬱

The most difficult kanji.

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